Diancecht Posted April 10, 2024 Share Posted April 10, 2024 A longtime San Francisco hyper-local news site is using generative AI for the vast majority of its recent, “originally reported” stories — without clear disclosures to the extent of its use. A substantial chunk of content on Hoodline’s website in recent months — save for a handful of stories reported and written by a few longtime (human) contributors — appears to be produced by a synthetic text generator. “This is straight-up AI spam,” Max Spero, the CEO of AI content detection firm Pangram Labs, told Gazetteer SF after reviewing a selection of stories published on Hoodline in March. “It is very obvious.” Additionally, these stories are bylined by a rotating cast of five authors, most, if not all, of whose bylines appear to be AI-generated fabrications. Some of these writers have been published on the site since at least May 2023. click for more 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Diancecht Posted April 10, 2024 Author Share Posted April 10, 2024 this is a well-reported piece, and i thought that it might interest more than a few of you. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wilfrid Posted April 11, 2024 Share Posted April 11, 2024 There’s something more complicated going on because AI can’t actually “report” — it has no causal connection with the world. It’s trained on data and that doesn’t happen in real time. So the Chen Lung Ku story, from a few days prior, must have been based on facts a human pumped into the machine, then allowing the AI to pump out the story. But yes it’s all disappointing. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Orik Posted April 14, 2024 Share Posted April 14, 2024 Could just be a script taking news stories from other sources and asking the regurgitation engine to "paraphrase this in the style of that" Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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